Reviews
Wolf Rune
Being in a room with Sinikka Langeland is like being charmed into a northern forest under a night sky. Her...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2021
Vårvindar Friska
Here are two musicians who discovered some sort of magic potion in a cellar in Stockholm when they played two...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2019
KWEChE
The nyatiti is an eight-stringed plucked lyre of the Luo people in Kenya. Played in a fast and rhythmic way,...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2021
Last Leaf
The Danish String Quartet set a gold standard for a classical music ensemble in taking on the folk music of...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Magma
Taking inspiration from Mulatu Astatke and Fela Kuti, as well as traditional Western and Oriental music, this fourth album from...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: March/2022
Maravilhas Contemporâneas
The significance of this reissue lies not in the fame of its creator, who died in 2017, but the interesting...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: April/2019
The Movers Vol 1: 1970-1976
For a band that reportedly sold 500,000 copies of its debut album in 1970 and managed to break the colour...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2022
Los Duendes de la Marimba
This album was recorded in the house of the Torres family (keepers of the Torres dynasty, masters of Colombia’s Pacific...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2020
Ejdeha
Gordon Grdina is a guitarist and oud (lute) player with one foot in Vancouver and another in New York. Originally...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2018
